SUS-STUDIF.S. 15! 



NOTE II. 

 SUS-STUDIES IN THE LEYDEN MUSEUM 



BT 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



June 1905. 



With 13 plates. 



Several years ago I was informed by an old Resident 

 from Palembang, Sumatra, that in that part of the large 

 island was living a Pig, diiBfering from all other described 

 species and called Nangoei by the natives ; the animal is 

 not always to be found in that country but in certain 

 months and then in large numbers, so that the natives 

 can procure quantities by netting. In vain I tried to be- 

 come specimens until the now Resident of Palembang 

 presented me with the skull of a Pig, afterwards with 

 two heads in spirits: all three were told to belong to 

 what the natives call Nangoei. Unhappily the skull first 

 mentioned is that of a not-adult specimen (6 molars in 

 each jaw), moreover it is in a rather poor condition, as 

 the upperparts have been smashed into pieces ; and the 

 extracted skulls of the now finely mounted heads show 

 that they belong to still younger (5 molars in each jaw) 

 specimens than the first skull ; appai'ently these two heads 

 however cannot belong to the same species; for meanwhile 

 one of them has the naked parts of the muzzle light colored, 

 the profile-line concave, the ears small, of an oval shape 

 having the upper part of the inner margin nearly straight, 

 very faintly concave with rather broadly rounded tip, 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "V^ol. XXVI. 



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